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While still a law professor in the 1990s, Elizabeth Warren moderated a pair of public television discussions on corporate America that involved her acting out scenarios like an imaginary CEO fighting for a pay raise and on how to pull off exporting American jobs.

When the definitive account of America’s decline and fall is ultimately written, there will presumably be a whole chapter dedicated to Fyre Festival, the epically failed criminal conspiracy / luxury music festival for trust fund thinkfluencers that is currently the subject of two popular documentaries, one on Hulu and Netflix.

The Washington Post fact checker on Wednesday gave Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) “three Pinocchios” for claiming in a recent campaign ad that a hedge fund in New York was responsible for shutting down a Wisconsin factory and making the town it was in go “bankrupt.”

Whitney Tilson, the hedge fund manager who was trashed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) last December despite being one of her biggest fans, announced on Thursday that he was shutting down his firm due to poor performance, according to a Bloomberg report.